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Karma Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita
Understanding selfless action through Lord Krishna's timeless teachings.
May 12, 2024·8 min read
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Reading the Isha Upanishad Today
The shortest of the great Upanishads compresses an entire philosophy of possession, work, and knowledge into eighteen verses.
Apr 26, 2024·9 min read
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Yudhishthira and the Burden of Dharma
The Mahabharata gives its most righteous man its heaviest burdens, and refuses him every easy answer.
Apr 4, 2024·12 min read
Acharyas
Teachings and works of great acharyas and saints.
Saints & Acharyas
The Short, Blazing Life of Adi Shankaracharya
In thirty-two years, a boy from Kerala reshaped Indian philosophy and left institutions that have endured for over a millennium.
Apr 22, 2024·11 min read
Saints & Acharyas
Ramanuja and the Embrace of Devotion
How Ramanuja built the intellectual house that bhakti lives in, and why he broke his vow of secrecy from a temple tower.
Apr 1, 2024·10 min read
Stotras & Hymns
Sacred hymns that inspire devotion and inner peace.
Arts & Literature
Nataraja: The Cosmic Dance in Bronze
The Chola bronze of dancing Shiva is perhaps the most complete philosophical statement ever cast in metal.
Apr 18, 2024·8 min read
Arts & Literature
Rasa: How Art Becomes Experience
Why does a fictional grief move us to real tears? India's classical theory of aesthetics answered this two thousand years ago.
Feb 21, 2024·10 min read
Arts & Literature
The Alvars: Poets Drunk on God
Between the sixth and ninth centuries, twelve Tamil poets sang Vishnu with such intimacy that theology had to expand to hold them.
Feb 7, 2024·9 min read
Puranas & Itihasa
Timeless stories that illuminate dharma and values.
Scriptures
Why Rama Went to the Forest
The Ramayana's pivotal moment is a man treating his word as more real than his kingdom — and the epic never lets us forget the cost.
Mar 14, 2024·10 min read
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Hanuman: Strength in Service
The Ramayana's mightiest figure cannot remember his own strength until it is needed for someone else. That is the whole theology.
Feb 11, 2024·7 min read
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The Meaning of Diwali
The festival of lamps is a five-day meditation on light, wealth rightly held, and homecoming — older and deeper than its fireworks.
Jan 24, 2024·7 min read
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Books
Recommended reads to deepen your understanding.
The Bhagavad Gita
Translation and commentary by Swami Chinmayananda
The essential companion for a first serious reading.
The Principal Upanishads
S. Radhakrishnan
Scholarly, complete, and still unmatched as a one-volume reference.
The Ramayana of Valmiki
Translated by Robert P. Goldman et al.
The critical-edition translation, for readers who want the whole poem.
Indian Philosophy, Vols. I–II
S. Radhakrishnan
The classic survey of the darshanas.
The Wonder That Was India
A. L. Basham
A sympathetic historian's portrait of classical Indian civilization.
Hindu Temple: Its Meaning and Forms
Stella Kramrisch
The definitive study of temple symbolism and architecture.